Back Doors into Google Results?

[Brett_Tabke]

Why are there so many sites obviously poaching results from Google these days? Hardly a day goes by when another one doesn't popup. Many are scraping straight results (not API).

How's one do it without getting banned?

[BigDave]

They could be using a different IP to search google than the one that serves the results. They could even set up a p2p scumware network to do the searches.

[Brett_Tabke]

Easily spotted from Googles side. Just search for something bizzare and then look in the request logs.

[DaveN]

getting feeds from someone who as an API?

DaveN

[BigDave]

> Easily spotted from Googles side. Just search for something bizzare and then look in the request logs.

But much harder to ban if it's a p2p doing the searches.

[Brett_Tabke]

Do you have any such tools?

[ggrot]

Heh. Now what if these places were smart enough to run every search word through a dictionary first and reduce queries to 3 words searches or something. Would make oddball queries tougher.

[Brett_Tabke]

Then do a chain of them. apples, oranges, fruit...etc

Googles got big enough pipes they could - umm, flood just about anyone with a pseudo dos attack.